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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Vr
Chall's Stage 1
Standardized test
Composite Score
2. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Syntax
Morphology
Academic Achievement Tests
Latin layer of language
3. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Whole Language
Middle English
Components of Reading Instruction
Accent
4. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
WRAT
Direct Instruction
5. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Derived Score
V >
Cognitive Assessment
Composite Score
6. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Syntax
Top-down Reading Approach
7. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Suffix
Six basic types of syllables
Anna Gillingham
Achievement test
8. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Auditory Processing
Rate
Trigraph
Sight Words
9. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Cedilla
Sound Symbol Association
Diagnostic Teaching
Rate
10. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Universal Screening
Comprehension
Chall's Stage 4
James Hinshelwood
11. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Great Vowel Shift
Chall's Stage 5
Texas Education Code 28.06
12. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Texas Education Code 38.003
Dyslexia
James Hinshelwood
13. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
V >
Reading Comprehension Support
Matthew Effect
Phonemic/ decodable words
14. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
VAKT
Criterion-Referenced Test
Cognitive Assessment
15. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Samuel T. Orton
Phonics approach
Reliability
16. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Frank Smith
Morphology
Impulsivity
VC
17. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Diphthong
ALTA
The Norman Conquest
18. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Texas Education Code 38.003
Age equivalent
Vowel
Phoneme
19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Reading Comprehension Support
Trigraph
Vowel Digraph
20. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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21. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Anna Gillingham
Matthew Effect
Standard deviation
Samuel T. Orton
22. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Comprehension
Chall's Stage 4
Quadrigraph
Morphology
23. Individual Educational Plan
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Pre-English
IEP
Old English
24. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Composite Score
Trigraph
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Open Syllable
25. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Samuel T. Orton
Auditory Processing
Matthew Effect
26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
[-'le
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonics
27. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Phoneme
Whole Language
Grade equivalents
Derivative
28. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Adolf Kusmaul
Vowel Digraph
Direct Instruction
Phonology
29. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Modern English
Orthography
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Frank Smith
30. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
James Hinshelwood
Mathew Effect
Reading Comprehension Support
Raw score
31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Composite Score
Chall's Stage 5
Raw score
32. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Trigraph
Accent
Samuel T. Orton
Phonics
33. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
MSLE
[-'le
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
ESL
34. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Synthetic Instruction
RTI
Auditory Processing
Percentile
35. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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36. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Adolf Kusmaul
Grapheme
37. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Affix
MSLE
Kinesthetic
V-e
38. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Sound Symbol Association
Matthew Effect
Attention
Progress Monitoring
39. Whole body learning
IEP
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonics
Kinesthetic
40. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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41. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Rate
Multisensory
Open Syllable
Multi-Sensory Approach
42. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Towre
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Syllable Instruction
Percentile
43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
Fluency
Reliability
Matthew Effect
44. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Norm-Referenced Test
Semantics
Cedilla
IDEA
45. English as a second language
Comprehension
ESL
Texas Education Code 38.003
Multisensory
46. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Sight Words
Samuel T. Orton
Derived Score
The Norman Conquest
47. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Raw score
Cognition
Closed Syllable
48. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Synthetic Instruction
MSL
Great Vowel Shift
James Hinshelwood
49. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
ALTA
WIATII
Whole Language
Impulsivity
50. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Top-down Reading Approach
Diagnostic Teaching
Expressive language
Attention